"Not only did the
Chieftain delay nearly a year before reporting the murders, the April 19, 1888, edition that finally carried the story was missing from the newspaper's files. Rick Swart, the editor of the
Chieftain, helped me search through the musty cardboard boxes containing the newspaper's early editions, kept in the basement of the
Chieftain's one-story Bowlby-stone building in Enterprise."
-- Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon by R. Gregory Nokes
This quote exemplifies the book by showing the detail Nokes includes about the 1887 massacre of over 30 Chinese gold miners in Oregon's Hell's Canyon (for further example, he had earlier explained what "Bowlby-stone" is), as well as his personal involvement in the more recent investigation.
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